* It has Jesus sailing across the Sea of Galilee to Nazareth – which is actually inland ; and from thence going " up " to Capernaum – which is actually on the lakeside ( chapters 20-21 ); though this is contested by Blackhirst, who says that the traditional location of Nazareth is itself questionable.

The Synoptics describe Jesus as healing the mother-in-law of Simon Peter when he visited Simon's house in Capernaum, around the time of Jesus recruiting Simon as an Apostle ( Mark has it just after the calling of Simon, while Luke has it just before ).

has a similar account at Capernaum, but states that it was the son of a royal official who was cured at a distance.

The Gospel of John has a similar account at Capernaum, but states that it was the son of a royal official who was cured at a distance.

Matthew 4: 13 has Jesus living in the town of Capernaum, by the Sea of Galilee.

Mark 1 has him going directly to Capernaum ( from the temptation wherein he gathers his disciples, which were present at the famous wedding feast ) and performing miracles in Capernaum ( Mark 1: 25, 31, 34 ).

Epiphanius, writing of Joseph of Tiberias, a wealthy Roman Jew who converted to Christianity in the time of Constantine, says he claimed to have received an imperial rescript to build Christian churches in Jewish towns and villages where no gentiles or Samaritans dwell, naming Tiberias, Diocaesarea, Sepphoris, Nazareth and Capernaum.

According to Brown, there is no uniform agreement among critical scholars on some details of the historicity discussions, e. g. most of those scholars who reject the historicity of the birth at Bethlehem argue for a birth at Nazareth, a few suggest Capernaum while locations as far away as Chorazin have been hypothesized.

Unless they had moved their residence from Bethsaida to Capernaum, of which there is no record, and which for fishermen was unlikely, Bethsaida must have lain close to Capernaum.

Now there is no question that Capernaum was on “ the other side ,” nor is there any suggestion that the boat was driven out of its course ; and it is quite obvious that, sailing toward Capernaum, whether at Tell H &# 803 ; ūm or at Khān Minyeh, it would never reach Bethsaida Julius.

They make no mention of Jesus attending the wedding before going to Capernaum, or that his mother or brothers went there with him.

*# Mark says that the boat started to go unto the other side to Bethsaida, while John, gives the direction “ over the sea unto Capernaum ” ( John 6: 17 ).

The other biblical references to Cana are in John 4: 46, which mentions Jesus is visiting Cana when he is asked to heal the son of a royal official at Capernaum ; and John 21: 2, where it is mentioned that the apostle Nathanael ( usually identified with the Bartholomew included in the synoptic gospels ' lists of apostles ) comes from Cana.

This sermon was probably preached around 30 A. D. and is recounted in the Gospel of Matthew ( 5: 1 – 7: 29, including introductory and concluding material ) as being delivered on a mount on the north end of the Sea of Galilee, near Capernaum.

And He came into Capernaum and entered into the house of Simon, surnamed Peter, and He opened His mouth and said, ' As I walked by the sea of Tiberias, I chose John and James, the sons of Zebedee, and Simon and Andrew and Thaddaeus and Simon Zelotes, and Judas Isariot ; thee also, Matthew, when thou wast sitting at the receipt of custom, did I call and thou didst follow me.

Matthew does not mention why Jesus chose Capernaum to relocate to.

Albright and Mann support the theory that Jesus was already good friends with the disciples prior to recruiting them, and that Jesus specifically chose to move to Capernaum to be close to them.

Capernaum ( ;, Kfar Nahum, " Nahum's village ") was a fishing village in the time of the Hasmoneans.

No sources have been found for the belief that Capernaum was involved in the bloody Jewish revolts against the Romans, the First Jewish-Roman War ( AD 66 – 73 ) or Bar Kokhba's revolt ( 132 – 135 ), although there is reason to believe that Josephus, one of the Jewish generals during the earlier revolt, was taken to Capernaum ( which he called " Kapharnakos ") after a fall from his horse in nearby Bethsaida ( Josephus, Vita, 72 ).

During the first Jewish revolt of 66 – 70 Capernaum was spared as it was never occupied by the Romans.

The center of his work was Capernaum, a small town ( about 500 by 350 meters, with a population of 1, 500-2, 000 ) where, according to the Gospels, he appeared at the town's synagogue ( a non-sacred meeting house where Jews would often gather on the Sabbath to study the Torah ), and performed a public reading of scripture, but was met with rejection.

It was perhaps half way between Capernaum and Magdala.

At the time of Jesus, Capernaum was a sizeable town on the northwest shore of the Sea of Galilee, with a population of perhaps ten thousand.

Capernaum was located in Naphtali, but it was near Zebulun.

A church near Capernaum is said to be the home of Saint Peter.

The first three Gospels of the New Testament are mainly an account of Jesus ' public ministry in this province, particularly in the towns of Nazareth and Capernaum.

The phrase first occurs in Jesus ' comment concerning the faith of the Centurion of Capernaum:

According to this view, Marcion eliminated the first two chapters of Luke concerning the nativity, and began his gospel at Capernaum making modifications to the remainder suitable to Marcionism.

It then says he went with his mother and brothers and disciples to Capernaum for a " few days " but does not relate what went on there.

Simon the Pharisee, an elder of the Capernaum Synagogue, is visited by Ben Azra, one of the Temple priests, worrying about the possibility of Jesus causing a revolt.

This work, most likely painted circa 1623 for the Amsterdam iron and weapons merchant Louis de Geer I, represents the story from Matthew 17: 24-27, in which Jesus tells Peter to catch a fish and inside he will find money to pay tribute in Capernaum.

The house of Andrew and Peter seems to have been not far from the synagogue in Capernaum ( Matthew 8: 14 ; Mark 1: 29, etc.

* The Jesus Trail pilgrimage route connects many of the religious sites in Nazareth on a 60 km walking trail which ends in Capernaum.

It ends at Capernaum on the shores of the Sea of Galilee, where Jesus espoused his teachings.

Again turning northward along the shore, the Via Maris passed through Migdal, Capernaum, and Hazor.

Jesus had asked the tax collector Levi, at work in his tax booth in Capernaum, to quit his post.

The township contains these three cemeteries: Capernaum, Cormant Township, and Pine Ridge.

The Mark-Luke material is limited to a single incident in Capernaum involving exorcism ( Mk.

One Sabbath, Jesus taught in the synagogue in Capernaum and healed a man who had the spirit of an unclean devil.

Capernaum is also mentioned in the Gospel of Mark ( 2: 1 ), it is the location of the famous healing of the paralytic lowered through the roof to reach Jesus.

Josephus referred to Capernaum as a fertile spring.

In 1838, the American explorer, Edward Robinson discovered the ruins of the ancient Capernaum.

" ( Mark 2: 4 ) With the type of construction seen in Capernaum, it would not have been difficult to raise the ceiling by the courtyard stairs and to remove a part to allow the bed to be brought down to where Jesus stood.